Ann Marie Cook

Thermal-transfer printed bar codes are a quality control and workflow enhancement tool for a converter's own operations. By Ann Marie Cook, Weber Marking Systems In an average day, a pressure-sensitive label converter will produce countless rolls of pressure-sensitive labels for its customers. The labels may be attractive, process color labels for prime applications; or they may be custom or stock product identification or shipping labels for secondary applications. The label designs and applications will vary, but a large percentage of these unique products will have one element in common: bar codes. Though converters manufacture labels for bar coding every day, some still don't